Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

On Wed, 21 May 2025 00:22:24 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 05:03:14 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote:
 

On Tue, 20 May 2025 00:11:31 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :
 

However, if our rationality is just an epiphenomenon, how can we be
confident in our perception of any external truths?

 
How does the justification for that question follow from the
assumption?

 
Yikes! The classic self-referential paradox indeed!

 
Argument by reductio ad absurdum, in fact. A great way to prove that
there is something wrong with your argument.

 
The main proof of my argument is that "they" spend BILLIONS of dollars
in advertising things like Apple's "reliability" when, in fact, iOS is
the least secure, least updated, and the most exploited phone in
history.

 
But if your rationality is just an epiphenomenon, how can you be sure of
that?

Oh Shariputra, form is no other than emptiness,
emptiness no other than form.
Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form.
Sensation, conception, discrimination, awareness are likewise like this.

https://zmm.org/teachings-and-training/liturgy/heart-sutra/

Gate! Gate! Paragate! Parasamgate! Bodhi Svaha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajnaparamita

In the Prajnaparamita literature the descriptions of how things are go
from 100,000 line, to 25,000 lines, 10,000 lines, 8,000 lines and so
forth. The Heart Sutra gets it done in 260 Chines characters.

Of course it helps to know the antecedent schools. Start with Nagarjuna's
catuskoti (tetralemma).

Ayn Rand's favorite 'A is A' she cribbed from Aristotle would leave her a
babbling idiot with neither A nor not A.